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“Wanting to know the truth of things will get a man into unending trouble.”

“I’ve killed peasants and kings, women and children, all manner of beasts, and there is nothing so final as the end of a life.”

“Keep the edge on your steel and oil it daily.”

“I don’t believe in friendship.  There are those who call me ‘friend’, but I’ve never had occasion to count a friend among my acquaintances.”

“A kingdom inherited is a kingdom bound for trouble.  Kings are made on the battlefield and kept in power by his lords and retainers.”

“Willful women make for the most pleasant of bedmates.”

“Prince Victarion, now our King Victarion, once asked me what I thought of his wife.  I told him precisely what I thought of her.  I should have lied to him.”

“The priests speak of endless life for the devout.  I’ve put many holy men to the sword to prove them wrong.”

“If there is any feeling comparable to that of having a dethroned king lick the blood from your sabatons, I have yet to experience it.”

“Start your killing when the day is young; nighttime is for feasting and fucking.”

“An empty mead hall is a fearsome sight to behold.”

“A well-trained warhorse is a hard weapon in battle.”

“Summers in the North are colder than Old Winter in the South.”

“Of all the men who hold lordships and knighthoods, I am the most famous.”

“A city on fire is most beautiful when it is you who has lit the first torch and set the fuel aflame.”

“I’ve never seen a ghost or a demon or a monster of any kind.  I doubt the stories of such things are credible.”

“You know best the man at the end of your sword.”

“I won my spurs the day after my thirteenth birthing day.  I unhorsed Nathon Larley, the Lizard Knight, at the tourney put on for the event of Lord Degan Hoster’s wedding.  Afterward I had my first woman and my last taste of childhood.”

“A prudent tongue is called for at all times.”

“Never trust a man wearing velvet.”

“If you gathered the corpses I’ve made of people, I believe you could establish a new kingdom.  A rather large kingdom, perhaps.”

“My favorite book is Treatises of Warfare by Master Gregory Underwood.  If you’ve not read it, or don’t plan to read it, something has poisoned you’re judgment.”

“I adore traveling.  Across the seas and back again, I would do it until my days are over.”

“Give me an army and I will give you that which you seek.”

“Aspire to nothing and disappointment will avoid you.”

Jonathon is currently a senior at Iowa State University in Ames, where he studies Creative Writing and Literature and acts as the fiction editor for their undergraduate literary magazine, Sketch. His work can be seen at flash-flooding.com.

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